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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 1, 1941
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SOUTHERN STAR The Munsey Panorama Page 21 could never resist titles like those! Backing up a little, what I wanted to say to begin with is that a general view of the old Munsey field seems appropriate for this first article. It is intended that succeeding articles shall be restricted to specified periods, and these periods shall be treated with as much detail and thoroughness as the old doctor can scrape up from different parts of the room. A prodigious effort will be made-- promise you!-- even to say a word of two about the shorts. But I dunno if anything will come of it. Heck, anybody can make promises. Anyhow, if there are collectors extant who still haven't spotted all the rare items; who need information concerning exact dates, number of installments, authors, exact titles, even the exact number of pages of novelettes and complete novels, I can supply such data; and if I don't get around to it soon enough, address me in care of the STAR. An attempt will be made to answer all queries having to do with stories falling within the dates of the bibliography. An attempt, brothers; note the clever phrasing; and remember that the offer applies only to Munsey mags. And fer gawd's sake, don't send postage for reply. Look for the reply in the following issue of the STAR, which you will have to buy, beg, borrow, steal, or swap for. We feex 'em, eh, Joe? Now, where in the hell was I? Are we being followed, Butch? Oyeah, we were about to assimilate a bird's-eye view-- Well, I dunno, after all. After all, reversing the procedure, I dunno. It might be better to eschew the word "bird" in this first article. One never knows when one's verbiage will fly back at one. Be that as it may or may not, as me old grandfather used so fittingly to remark, it is high time to get down to business, if any. And right here we might throw in again that beautiful word "panorama," that J.G. loves so well to roll around on his tongue. Yes, suh. Well, all right, suh. It might be well to remember, I s'spose, that the great Munsey panorama of fantasy fiction is our alleged subject, and that it dates back even unto the days when old man Moses was writing serials for the sons of Israel. Or somebody. Anyhow, my idea of a panorama is to start the thing back in 1492, ramble considerably and end up in 1941. As you may know, it was a long series of mergers that finally evolved the modern Argosy. The Scrap Book went into the Cavelier; the Cavelier was combined with All-Story; the Argosy absorbed the Railroad Man's; and then the two great pulps, Argosy and All-Story, were merged in July, 1920. For the sake of convenience, I shall not, in these articles, use the titles All-Story-Cavelier and Argosy-All-Story; instead I shall say All-Story and Argosy, these being the portions of the titles retained. The Cavelier, October, 1908--May 9, 1914. (Merged with All-Story Weekly, May 16, 1914). There was a wealth of fantasy and science-fiction pioneering among the shorts from the very first. More of that later. High spots among the novels were, of course, the serials making up the famous Darkness and Dawn trilogy. Other serials by George Allan England: The Golden Blight, very popular in its day, and The Elixer of Hate. Garrett P. Serviss was represented by The Second Deluge, in 7 installments, beginning July, 1911. Besides these classics I am tempted to list Rider Haggard's beautiful Morning Star, though there is some doubt as to whether it could be called a fantasy. There are fantastic elements, and I shall discuss the matter in the next article. I have wondered about the long file of Semi Dual tales, beginning
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SOUTHERN STAR The Munsey Panorama Page 21 could never resist titles like those! Backing up a little, what I wanted to say to begin with is that a general view of the old Munsey field seems appropriate for this first article. It is intended that succeeding articles shall be restricted to specified periods, and these periods shall be treated with as much detail and thoroughness as the old doctor can scrape up from different parts of the room. A prodigious effort will be made-- promise you!-- even to say a word of two about the shorts. But I dunno if anything will come of it. Heck, anybody can make promises. Anyhow, if there are collectors extant who still haven't spotted all the rare items; who need information concerning exact dates, number of installments, authors, exact titles, even the exact number of pages of novelettes and complete novels, I can supply such data; and if I don't get around to it soon enough, address me in care of the STAR. An attempt will be made to answer all queries having to do with stories falling within the dates of the bibliography. An attempt, brothers; note the clever phrasing; and remember that the offer applies only to Munsey mags. And fer gawd's sake, don't send postage for reply. Look for the reply in the following issue of the STAR, which you will have to buy, beg, borrow, steal, or swap for. We feex 'em, eh, Joe? Now, where in the hell was I? Are we being followed, Butch? Oyeah, we were about to assimilate a bird's-eye view-- Well, I dunno, after all. After all, reversing the procedure, I dunno. It might be better to eschew the word "bird" in this first article. One never knows when one's verbiage will fly back at one. Be that as it may or may not, as me old grandfather used so fittingly to remark, it is high time to get down to business, if any. And right here we might throw in again that beautiful word "panorama," that J.G. loves so well to roll around on his tongue. Yes, suh. Well, all right, suh. It might be well to remember, I s'spose, that the great Munsey panorama of fantasy fiction is our alleged subject, and that it dates back even unto the days when old man Moses was writing serials for the sons of Israel. Or somebody. Anyhow, my idea of a panorama is to start the thing back in 1492, ramble considerably and end up in 1941. As you may know, it was a long series of mergers that finally evolved the modern Argosy. The Scrap Book went into the Cavelier; the Cavelier was combined with All-Story; the Argosy absorbed the Railroad Man's; and then the two great pulps, Argosy and All-Story, were merged in July, 1920. For the sake of convenience, I shall not, in these articles, use the titles All-Story-Cavelier and Argosy-All-Story; instead I shall say All-Story and Argosy, these being the portions of the titles retained. The Cavelier, October, 1908--May 9, 1914. (Merged with All-Story Weekly, May 16, 1914). There was a wealth of fantasy and science-fiction pioneering among the shorts from the very first. More of that later. High spots among the novels were, of course, the serials making up the famous Darkness and Dawn trilogy. Other serials by George Allan England: The Golden Blight, very popular in its day, and The Elixer of Hate. Garrett P. Serviss was represented by The Second Deluge, in 7 installments, beginning July, 1911. Besides these classics I am tempted to list Rider Haggard's beautiful Morning Star, though there is some doubt as to whether it could be called a fantasy. There are fantastic elements, and I shall discuss the matter in the next article. I have wondered about the long file of Semi Dual tales, beginning
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